Article 8 - BIS
Starting Date: 14/08/2007
Added By: Law Number 20 For the Year 2007

The police shall deliver the newborn and a copy of the record referred to above to the Qatari Orphan Foundation to take care of the newborn, based on the record to be signed by the receiving person. The Foundation shall undertake the following:

1.      Proposing to the competent court an assumed name for the newborn and two assumed names for the parents for approval by the court, which shall determine their respective nationalities as Qataris by acquisition, their respective religion as Islam, and their place of birth as home.

2.      Applying to the competent designated health office, with the copies of the police record and court resolution, for the said office to estimate the age of the newborn, enter it in the record of births, and to issue a birth certificate without any reference to the manner in which the newborn was discovered. Such certificate shall be handed over to the Foundation.

3.      Considering applications from families desiring to provide homes to children whose fathers or parents are unknown. Such applications shall be received and submitted to the competent court for the necessary resolution based on investigations undertaken by the Foundation.